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Samuel Michael Fuller was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low-budget, understated genre movies with controversial themes, often made outside the conventional studio system. Fuller wrote his first screenplay for Hats Off in 1936, and made his directorial debut with the Western I Shot Jesse James (1949). He would continue to direct several other Westerns and war thrillers throughout the 1950s.
Birth Name
Samuel Michael Fuller
Born
Monday, 12 August 1912
Died
Thursday, 30 October 1997
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Shoot! Filming the War | Self | 2016 |
A Fuller Life | Self | 2013 |
Carmel | (voice) | 2009 |
Filmmakers in Action | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2006 |
Edge of Outside | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2006 |
Shootout! | Self | 2005 |
The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'the Big Red One' | Himself (archive footage) / Self | 2005 |
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | Himself / Self | 2002 |
The 70th Annual Academy Awards | Self (Memorial Tribute) | 1998 |
The End of Violence | Louis Bering / Louis | 1997 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Shoot! Filming the War | Self | 2016 |
A Fuller Life | Self | 2013 |
Carmel | (voice) | 2009 |
Filmmakers in Action | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2006 |
Edge of Outside | Self / Self (archive footage) | 2006 |
Shootout! | Self | 2005 |
The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'the Big Red One' | Himself (archive footage) / Self | 2005 |
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | Himself / Self | 2002 |
The 70th Annual Academy Awards | Self (Memorial Tribute) | 1998 |
The End of Violence | Louis Bering / Louis | 1997 |
The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera | Himself / Self | 1996 |
Metamorphosis of a Melody | Flavius (narrator) | 1996 |
Somebody to Love | Sam Silverman | 1994 |
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made | Himself / Self | 1994 |
Anything for John | 1993 | |
Golem, le jardin pétrifié | Sam | 1993 |
Golem, l'esprit de l'exil | Elimelek | 1992 |
The Bohemian Life | Gassot | 1992 |
Where Is Musette? | Self | 1991 |
Hollywood Mavericks | Self | 1990 |
Tinikling or 'The Madonna and the Dragon' | Chef de bureau Newsweek | 1990 |
Sons | Father | 1990 |
Street of No Return | Police Commissioner | 1989 |
Falkenau, the Impossible | Samuel Fuller / Self & narrator | 1988 |
Helsinki-Naples All Night Long | Boss | 1987 |
A Return to Salem's Lot | Dr. Van Meer / Van Meer | 1987 |
Siskel & Ebert | Self | 1986 |
The Blood of Others | Le vieil homme dans le petit café | 1984 |
Thieves After Dark | Zoltan | 1984 |
Scotch Myths | Self | 1982 |
Slapstick of Another Kind | Colonel Sharp / Col. Sharp | 1982 |
White Dog | Charlie Felton | 1982 |
Hammett | Old Man in Pool Hall | 1982 |
The State of Things | Joe | 1982 |
The Big Red One | War Correspondent | 1980 |
1941 | Interceptor Commander | 1979 |
Cinématon | N°602 | 1978 |
The American Friend | Der Amerikaner / The American | 1977 |
Scott Joplin | Impresario | 1977 |
The Young Nurses | Doc Haskell | 1973 |
The Last Movie | Sam | 1971 |
Brigitte et Brigitte | Samuel Fuller / Self | 1966 |
Pierrot le Fou | Samuel Fuller / Lui-Même | 1965 |
Cinéastes de notre temps | Self | 1964 |
House of Bamboo | Japanese policeman | 1955 |
Director Filmography
Title | Year |
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The Big Red One: The Reconstruction | 2005 |
Tinikling or 'The Madonna and the Dragon' | 1990 |
Chillers | 1990 |
Street of No Return | 1989 |
Falkenau, the Impossible | 1988 |
Thieves After Dark | 1984 |
White Dog | 1982 |
The Big Red One | 1980 |
Bad Men of the West | 1978 |
The Deadly Trackers | 1973 |
Shark | 1969 |
Iron Horse | 1966 |
The Naked Kiss | 1964 |
Shock Corridor | 1963 |
The Virginian | 1962 |
Merrill's Marauders | 1962 |
The Dick Powell Theatre | 1961 |
Underworld U.S.A. | 1961 |
The Crimson Kimono | 1959 |
Verboten! | 1959 |
Forty Guns | 1957 |
Run of the Arrow | 1957 |
China Gate | 1957 |
House of Bamboo | 1955 |
Hell and High Water | 1954 |
Pickup on South Street | 1953 |
Park Row | 1952 |
Fixed Bayonets! | 1951 |
The Steel Helmet | 1951 |
The Baron of Arizona | 1950 |
I Shot Jesse James | 1949 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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The Naked Kiss | 1964 |
Shock Corridor | 1963 |
Underworld U.S.A. | 1961 |
The Crimson Kimono | 1959 |
Verboten! | 1959 |
Forty Guns | 1957 |
Run of the Arrow | 1957 |
China Gate | 1957 |
Park Row | 1952 |
The Steel Helmet | 1951 |
All Star Revue | 1950 |
The Colgate Comedy Hour | 1950 |